Questions and Answers
What is the modern corpus and what beliefs underlie its use?
This will be dealt with in more depth in the following chapter.
What is the primary focus of corpus linguists?
The range of languages addressed by corpus linguists is growing annually.
What were the major factors that led to the re-adoption of corpus-based language study?
The availability of computer-based corpus material, the acceptance that a corpus could never be the sole explicandum of language, and a growing awareness of the usefulness of quantitative data.
What was the key realization about the relationship between corpus data and linguists' intuition?
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According to Fillmore, what is the limitation of corpora?
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What is Fillmore's conclusion about corpus and non-corpus linguists?
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